3131.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

Prevention Behavior--in One World, Why Do People Behave Differently Across Nations?

This session presents a cross-national comparison of the social values and the willingness to pay for prevention behavior versus curative health care. This includes evaluations of specific prevention programs and their implications for global public health policy.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to apply willingness to pay methodologies to preventive health care programs, understand the sensitivity of willingness to pay measures as they relate to the assumptions used, and identify cultural and social perspectives across nations that contribute to similar prevention strategies.
Moderator(s):Diane Dewar, PhD
Organizer(s):Diane M. Dewar, PhD
2:30 PMEconomics and the measurement of health related well-being: Generalisability of methods and implication for generalisability of results
Stephen Birch, D Phil, Amiram Gafni, PhD
3:00 PMPerceptions of risks and benefits: Impact on valuations of health-care treatments and prevention interventions
Martin I. Meltzer, PhD
3:30 PMGlobalization and the homogenization of infectious disease control policies in South and Southeast Asia
Jeremy Shiffman, PhD
Sponsor:Medical Care
Cosponsors:International Health; Latino Caucus; Social Work; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA